Winter Sunset + 

Then I raised my head + 

and stared out over + 

the blue February waste + 

to the blue bank of hill + 

with stars on it + 

in strings and festoons⁠— + 

but above that: + 

one opaque + 

stone of a cloud + 

just on the hill + 

left and right + 

as far as I could see; + 

and above that + 

a red streak, then + 

icy blue sky! + 

It was a fearful thing + 

to come into a man’s heart + 

at that time: that stone + 

over the little blinking stars + 

they’d set there. + 